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Auction History Result 7w044 FRANK M. MAYO 21x26 stage play poster 1880s he played Davy Crockett & Pudd'nhead Wilson! Date Sold 6/29/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Unfolded Stage Play Poster (measures 20 1/2" x 26 1/4" [52 x 67 cm]) (Learn More) Frank Maguire Mayo was a stage actor from the 1860s to the 1890s. He was born in Boston in 1839 and moved to San Francisco in 1856, and by the 1860s, he was appearing on stage with Edwin Booth. His first great success was in "The Streets of New York" in Boston in 1865. In 1872, he had his greatest success in a biographical play called "Davy Crockett", and he played that character over and over in revivals for years. He also played the lead in Mark Twain's "Pudd'nhead Wilson". Mayo passed awya in 1896 at the age of 57. He had a son, Edwin F. Mayo, who first appeared as a child in his father's plays, and in 1887, he succeeded his father in the lead role in Davy Crockett. He passed away in 1900, just four years after his father, but further information about his life is very sketchy. We don't know if the famous silent actor Frank Mayo was the son and grandson of these two stage actors, but it seems quite possible. If anyone knows more about any of this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that while this poster could conceivably be rolled, we will only ship it in a large flat package, because we feel certain that rolling it would damage it. Note that this item needs to be shipped in an oversized flat package. Some of these items can ONLY be sent in flat packages, and could not possibly be rolled into a tube. On some of them (for example f it is a size that might ordinarily be rolled in a tube, like a half-sheet), the reason it is in this auction is specifically because we feel it either CAN'T be rolled or because we feel it would be a mistake to roll it, because it might well damage the item. In the case of the few items that could be rolled, we will roll the item in a tube if the new owner insists, but only if they accept that they can't return the item if it is damaged from being rolled. So please bear in mind that this item must be sent in a LARGE flat package (the size of the package will depend on the size of the item), and bear this added expense in mind before placing a bid on it. Condition: good to very good. The poster is fragile and has some tears and tiny paper loss in the blank borders, and has darkening down the right side (see our image). Still, it has survived amazingly well, given it is around 130 years-old. It is printed on a thin paper and could easily be linenbacked or paperbacked. Learn More about condition grades 
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